Miscellaneous Missives

I left for God's Country Friday for the weekend, so I'm putting my last three entries into one.  Technically, I didn't blog each day in June, but I came dang close.  The blog challenge has been a delight. Friday night I volunteered to serve beer at the beer ten with these two wonderful folks.  We were champion at selling, entertaining, and laughing.  It was certainly a delight. Saturday morning this group drove 90 minutes to Iowa City for the Big Rode Ride.  We then cycled in 95º weather (not including the heat index) through a heat advisory (people told us like we didn't already know it was really hot) through a hillier course than we expected.  The day was a day of winning.  I love these folks (some more than others).  Of course it included some stops along the way as part of the entertainment and experience.  These, of course, are the best part.  That being said, the riding was still fun.   Fin...

Well,  I'm still going off the synonyms from the delight definition that I posted early in this challenge.  Today's word is beezer although I'm not really sure how it fits. I guess some words aren't as fitting as other, but I've been in a prize-fight against the big black ants on my deck.  Last evening, I posted to Facebook that I took a propane torch to two ants crossing my deck which allowed my neighbors and I to meet the fire department.  I added a photo from my visit to the fire department in the fall.  Honestly, by now,  I didn't think any of my Facebook friends would believe it since I post lies (un-true) all of the time.  Unfortunately, some were worried.  Actually, I'm worried that anyone believed it.  Tonight, as I was removing nail polish, I took the nail polish remover on a cotton swab to some of them.  Anyway, it was beezer (delightful).  When I was done I gave up and went to the spray bottle in which I have my ins...

I wish it was easier to see the train to the left of the trail. Yep, bonzer is a synonym for delightful.  Today is a bonzer day.  First, I played (walked) nine holes of golf.  I followed this with 15 miles on my bike including filling in a survey for the peeps on the trail although I waited and did it when I was done at home.  After my delightful/bonzer coffee/protein drink, I did my daily kettlebell routine (better late than never). Now I'm blogging, reading, and geeking on the internet.  This evening I'll go to my favorite spin class to get some extra miles under my butt.  I wish every day was as bonzer as today.  It makes me feel super productive and energetic.  Summer!!

Today was absolutely charming (delightful).  The weather is absolutely perfect.  For one, I read Where the Crawdads Sing .  I guess it's been on the New York Times bestseller list for months.  It seems I'm "behind the times" (pun intended) because I just found out about it this week.  Anyway, it was a charming book that I read outside while drinking water and eating bing cherries.  Although I didn't give it five stars (I went with 4), it was a great summer read, and summer is absolutely delightful. 

Inner-city black families, no matter their perils, understood “that government alone can’t teach our kids to learn … that children can’t achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.” “I have heard him say, ‘I don’t want us to have a bunch of forums on race.’ He reminds people, ‘Yeah, we can talk about this. But what are we going to  do ?’ ”  This morning I read this article about President Barack Obama by Ta-Nehisi Coates.  The article as one would imagine was marvelous.  It reminded me of all Obama did during his eight years in office.  It also took me back to January 2009 when I attended Obama's inauguration.  Truly, it was one of my life's highlights.  I also saw him on the campaign trail, and I feel delighted to have experienced both.  Drinking coffee and reading about one of the greatest presidents is a good way to start my da...

I've been partaking in berries from the grocery store for over a month, but there's nothing better than strawberries directly from the farmer at the farmers market.  Another of my favorites are snap peas.  Yesterday I went to my typical farmers market and was disappointed to find neither.  Since I don't give up easily, today I went to another farmers market and found strawberries.  They are soft and sweet, very pleasurable (delightful).  I'm still on the look out for snap peas and perhaps a new farmers market, but even the search will be very pleasurable (delightful). 

I've been trying to use a different synonym for each post in June, but it seems I messed up by using both gratifying and glorious twice.  This realization came as I was trying to chose a title that fit the delightful young adult book I finished today.  Watch Us Rise by Renee Watson was enchanting.  It really was a good read.  This book is filled with poems, pictures, history, song lists (I even made a Spotify playlist from one of the playlist in the book)... all while telling a story about two young feminist trying to make a change in their school.